On Thu, 9 Oct 2014, Mike Gabriel wrote:

> the behaviour of kinit changed after an upgrade from Debian wheezy to Debian 
> jessie (around 2014-10-10).
>
> Previously it was possible to simply say
>
>  $ kinit
>
> on the command line and kinit then would assume my current user as username 
> for obtaining a ticket for the default Kerberos realm.
>
> Since my upgrade, I have to always specify the Kerberos username when 
> executing kinit:
>
>  $ kinit mike
>
> This alone is only a bit inconvenient. However, this change of behaviour
> breaks the krb5-auth-dialog applet.
>
> Maybe you have an idea why this change occurred and maybe this bug needs
> to be reassigned to krb5-auth-dialog and maybe other tools that depend
> on kinit.

So, what is the observed behavior of just 'kinit' in the failing case?
I.e., how does it fail?

The selection of what client principal to use has some number of
fallbacks, if I remember correctly.

-Ben Kaduk


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